Big changes in how the FCC does its
job could be on the horizon. The incoming administration of
President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly okayed a proposal by the
agency’s transition team to restructure the Commission’s bureaus,
reports Broadcasting and Cable.
The changes would relax the “silos”
that currently separate telephony, broadcasting, satellite and other
industries and parcel out to other agencies duties that are duplicative,
according to the account. The proposal is
related to comments made by two transition team members — Jeffrey
Eisenach and Roslyn Layton — in 2014, in their role as scholars of the
conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute, according to
the account. They have both said that a “more coherent and streamlined”
FCC would better serve the goals of consumers, competitors and Congress. Continue Reading
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